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Taliban bomb Peshawar in response to Pakistan offensive
Nov 16th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
Peshawar, Pakistan - Haji Muhammad was carrying a box of chickens to his stall Monday when he saw the pickup truck racing down a Peshawar street. A moment later the truck exploded and he found himself lying on the floor...
Market attack in NW Pakistan kills at least 5
Nov 8th, 2009 - Washington Post
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and seven other people in an attack on the outskirts of Pakistan's volatile city of Peshawar on Sunday...
Eight killed in spate of Iraq bombings
Nov 1st, 2009 - The Raw Story
A spate of bombings across Iraq, including two suicide attacks and a bicycle bomb, killed eight people and wounded more than 50 others on Sunday, police said. In the deadliest attack...
Iraqi press laments Baghdad blasts
Oct 28th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Ministry of Labor after the attack
The Iraqi press has railed against the government and security forces following Sunday's suicide attacks in Baghdad which killed 150 people...Missile hits could strain relations in Pakistan
Oct 22nd, 2009 - Boston
PARACHINAR, Pakistan - Soldiers fought for the Pakistani Taliban chief's hometown yesterday as they pressed an offensive along the Afghan border, while intelligence officials said US missiles hit territory controlled by another insurgent...
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1:23Iraqi Girl Aborts Suicide Attack
WONG: In Iraq, a teenage girl supposedly destined to blow herself up, decides to live instead. Let's have a look. STORY: This was the moment a girl possibly as young as 13 decided she did not want to end her life as a suicide bomber ...
1:57Suicide attack kills 6 Italian soldiers, 10 Afghans
A massive suicide car bomb ripped into a NATO convoy killing six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians on Thursday in one of the deadliest attacks on Western troops in Kabul, officials said. The explosion struck just after midday about 1 ...
Suicide Attacks from WikiPedia:
A suicide attack is an attack intended to kill others and inflict widespread damage in the knowledge that oneself will die in the process. This article is concerned with two particular instances of suicide attacks, namely the tactics employed by the Kamikaze and modern suicide tactics and suicide terrorism.
In the late 17th century, Qing official Yu Yonghe recorded that injured Dutch soldiers fighting against Koxinga's forces for control of Taiwan in 1661 would use gunpowder to blow up both themselves and their opponents rather than be taken prisoner.
During the Belgian Revolution, the Dutch Lieutenant Jan van Speijk detonated his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp to prevent being captured by the Belgians.
Another example was the Prussian soldier Karl Klinke on 18 April 1864 at the Battle of Dybbøl, when he blew a hole in a Danish fortification.
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